Poetry
Padel has published eight collections. Four in the 1990s, when she won the 1996 UK National Poetry Competition, and four between 2002 and 2012: most recently The Mara Crossing whose form is said to revivify the prosimetrum, a mediaeval mix of poetry and prose, which is said to address animal and human migration.
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“There is only beauty—and it has only one perfect expression—Poetry. All the rest is a lie—except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship.... For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)